Not quite yet. We're working on a web services interface to do this for Pig and other Hadoop tools, but it isn't ready for prime time just yet. You can see the early form at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HCATALOG-182
Oozie does have some support for this as well, you could check it out at http://incubator.apache.org/oozie/ Alan. On Feb 3, 2012, at 12:34 AM, Michael Lok wrote: > Hi folks, > > I was wondering if it's possible to submit register and run a script > using PigServer in MAPREDUCE mode in an asynchronous manner; compared > to how a script is executed right now whereby the program is made to > wait till the job is finished. Although the task is still executed in > the server, I can't programmatically retrieve the job id for future > reference. > > > Any help is greatly appreciated. > > > Thanks.
